interaction criticism
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Interaction criticism : an introduction to the practice
Jae Sang Yoo
The field of HCI lacks a proper discipline of interaction criti-cism.
In the past, Representationalism, the correspondence theory of truth used to be accepted as a pragmatic knowledge fit for HCI.
In the present, there are some more areas of HCI that cannot be fulfilled with those philosophical studies.
Introduction
Normative theories of usable interfaces• Nielsen’s ten usability heuristics-double correspondence
• Norman ”Ideally, the user’s model and the design model are equiva-lent.”
Professional evaluational practices• GOMS’s predicting task completion times
Past
The critical mass of HCI has moved beyond the goals and value of interaction design before.• Rise of aesthetics, affective interaction, experience design, intimate
and embodied interaction.
->a new type of criticism in the perspective of the arts and humanities.
Now
subjective and non-perspectival.
Thus, aesthetic judgments surrounding art, design, and other cultural phenomena have been emerged to develop, share, and evaluate among scholars and experts.
Criticism on a view of aes-thetics
1. Art and/or criticism educates our perception and/or directs acts of cognition.
2. Criticism and aesthetic response are inseparable.
3. Critical activity involves a back and forth movement be-tween pointing out material particulars and relating them to interpreted wholes.
4. Art/criticism is enlightening.
5. Art/criticism is ethically uplifting.
Criticism as aesthetic response : 5 claims
Perception is an cultivatable skill.
Not all the humans are good at perception.
We can improve cognition.
When a theory of science is well explained, there is little con-cern for the epistemological problem of how a reader per-ceives and comes to understand the meaning of this data. However, in art, it is hard to notice whether the user gets the idea of the work or not.
1. Art and/or criticism educates our per-ception and/or directs acts of cognition.
Criticism and aesthetic Response ↔scientific notions of knowl-edge production
The discursive form of expert aesthetic knowledge is insepa-rable from the personal and subjective activity of engaging with a work.
Everyday aesthetic experience is implied by the notion of criti-cism as a form of directing attention.
2. Criticism and aesthetic response are inseparable.
Aesthetic beauty can be found only in the union of material works and human life worlds.
The film, triumph of the will, has been discussed even though the content is inappropriate.
3. Criticism is a back-and-forth between ma-terial particulars and interpreted wholes.
4. art/criticism is enlighten-ing.
Since criticism educates our perception and cognition, we be-come habitually more perceptive to the intersubjective re-sponses and values of others situated in ours and other cul-tures.
Enhances empathy, social solidarity and a more just society.
5. Art/criticism is ethically uplifting.
Traditional criticism
1. Creator
2. Artifact
3. Consumer
4. Social context
4 perspectives on interaction criti-cism
Categories in HCI1. Interaction de-
signer2. Interface3. User 4. Social context
http://gizmodo.com/5421983/lumino-project-next-generation-lego-crossed-with-microsoft-surface/all
Lumino
Researchers’ view need to be focusing not only in pure engi-neering problems, but also in arts and humanities.
For the Lumino, they expanded the realm of researcher by DIY system. By providing the video, ppt, and other resources, they made readers into creator.
Interaction designer
Features of LuminoDomino
Tangram-like patterns
Tactile pleasure
Demo-application of checkers
Rubber stamp
Blurred the boundaries between engineering, crafting, and presentation.
Interface
Every user has their own subjec-tive intention and prejudices.
Aesthetic judgment is not just whatever what I think is beauti-ful, but rather is what we think is beautiful.
Implied reader• With this idea, we can critique effec-
tively.
User
Users of Lumino• Members of the
HCI community• A Lumino end
user• Members of the
DIY community
Lumino
Historical context
Social groups(DIYers, scientific community)
Made in the context of masculin-ity
The social context of HCI
Most complex and dynamic->
Description+interpretation
HCI community should view in criticism and humanist theory like cognitive science and social science.(how we experience, perceive, understand, and feel about our experiences with technology.)
Conclusion